Health Care : Unsustainable Trends Necessitate Comprehensive and Fundamental Reforms to Control Spending and Improve Value

By General Accounting Office

Book Id: WPLBN0000119928
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Health Care : Unsustainable Trends Necessitate Comprehensive and Fundamental Reforms to Control Spending and Improve Value
Author:	General Accounting Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Accountability in government, United States. General Accounting Office
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
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Publisher:	United States General Accounting Office (Gao)


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Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: The forum?s plenary speakers made the following observations regarding health care costs and value: U.S. wealth and other factors drive health care spending: A nation?s wealth is the principal driver of its health care spending. However, wealth alone does not explain the high level of spending in the United States. Other influential factors include the pluralistic organization of the U.S. health care system and ambivalent attitudes toward rationing health care. While health care spending appears affordable for another decade or two, added spending over time will draw resources away from other economic sectors and could induce adverse economic implications for government, individuals, and other private purchasers of health care.